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This article originally appeared at Task & Purpose. By ADAM LINEHAN The Education Center at the Wall, set to open its doors in 2020, would be the latest historical showpiece on the National Mall, 25,000 square feet of

An armed American soldier tries to talk to a Vietnamese woman holding her child. Photo: Philip Jones Griffith This ariticle originally appeared at BBC Wales News By Caleb Spencer The work of freelance photographer Philip

A melee breaks out between police and demonstrators near the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue during the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28, 1968., photo: Bettman / Getty Images // In These Times

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This post originally appeared at ipick.vn “Mr. Nguyen Quang Dy is retired from Viet Nam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He studied in Australia and in the U.S., at Harvard, where he was a Nieman Fellow. His writings

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AP Photo/Cliff Owen This post originally appeared on democracynow.org. We host a roundtable discussion on the life and legacy of John McCain, the Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, six-term senator and two-time

Fifty years ago, on August 28 1968, protest demonstrations targeting the Democratic Party national convention in Chicago were met with a brutal police attack that was televised globally. The killing of Bobby Kennedy dashed the

This post originally appeared at historynewsnetwork.org. by Michael Stewart Foley Michael Stewart Foley is author of Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War, and editor of Dear Dr. Spock: Letters

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This post originally appeared at historynewsnetwork.org by Barbara Myers Barbara Myers is an independent journalist and author of “The Other Conspirator,” the story of Daniel Ellsberg’s co-defendant in the

The Peace Studies conversation with Doug Rawlings is now posted on PeaceWorks’ YouTube channel. It is 55 minutes, concludes with 2 poems: The Girl in the Picture(for Phan Thi Kim Phuc) and Unexploded Ordnance: A Ballad.

It is the 57th anniversary of the 1961 first use of Agent Orange herbicides on the environment and people of Vietnam. For 10 years following, the US waged chemical warfare (along with its several other forms of war) on

Neil Young. (photo: Michael Kovac/WireImage) This post originally appeared at readersupportednews.org. By Annie Zaleski, Salon Artists from Jason Isbell to Gary Clark Jr. keep song about 1970 state-sponsored violence rooted in

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Photo: A former stockade in Building 1213 at Fort Winfield Scott. The 1912 stockade, which held drafted men who refused to deploy to Vietnam in 1968, still has bars on the windows and stenciled lettering on peeling walls that

Photo caption: In 2011, Veterans For Peace joined with the Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation contingent to march in the Milton, Wisconsin 4th of July Parade, in which many carried thes Wisconsin Network for Peace &

This op-ed first appeared on the Our Future blog on June 5, 2018. By Richard Eskow Fifty years ago, in the dust and fire of global youth activism, everything seemed possible. The political world was a cloud filled with chaos and

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This Month in History: 1969

February First trial of draft resistors known as the Buffalo 9. Around 150 University of Buffalo students and faculty picket the U.S. Courthouse, chanting “Free the Nine — The Trial’s a Crime”. Defendants argue that it was necessary to resist an “immoral, illegal, racist, politically insane war on the Vietnamese people.” Charges include assaulting federal officers, as well as draft evasion. The jury is unable to reach a verdict on several of the defendants but Bruce Beyer is convicted and receives a three-year sentence. Beyer later goes to Canada and then Sweden to help organize fellow resistors and deserters.

February Fort Gordon – Pfc. Dennis Davis editor of (the antiwar newspaper) Last Harass) is given an undesirable discharge.

February 14 The first three of 27 Gls charged with mutiny at the Presidio are found guilty and sentenced to 14, 15, and 16 years at hard labor by a court martial at the San Francisco Presidio stockade (see entry for October 14, 1968). By this time, three of those charged (Blake, Mather, and Pawlowski) had escaped to Canada. On appeal, the long sentences for mutiny were voided by the Court of Military Review in June 1970, and reduced to short sentences for willful disobedience of a superior officer. Rowland, for example, was released in 1970 after a year and a half imprisonment. See The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner for a fuller description of the case, as well as entry for October 14, 1968.

February 20 Tacoma – the Shelter Half coffee house’s business license is revoked. See October 1968 entry.

February 22-23 NLF attack 110 targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon.

February 25 36 U.S. Marines are killed by NVA (PAVN or VPA) who raid their base camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory . . . . Memory is haunted, not just by ghostly others but by the horrors we have done, seen, and condoned, or by the unspeakable things from which we have profited.”